Just wanted to say 'thank' Peaugh! I've had Perceptor over a week and I could not get the shoulders to line up for robot mode. I rewatched your review and saw what I was doing wrong. Thanks again! You might have saved me from having a broke Perceptor- from either from twisting the arm the wrong way or tossing it out the second story window of my apartment I'm not sure :)
such a great homage to G1 perceptor... he even has the slide-up head feature. i'll be really happy if the US version really does have the chrome plastic - we don't see enough of that these days :) BIG thumbs up for this one!
About a third mode, what if you kinda only half way transformed him leaving his arms and head down and having the cannon thingy over the head like in his alt mode but also spread the legs a bit and only have them out like not connecting to his other part, it looks like there is a double hinge on his...stomach area so bending that, making it look like a sorta microscope or stationary launcher?
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this yet, but at BotCon the designer said that the "window" on his chest is supposed to flip down and he can put stuff on there and examine it. Didn't see that mentioned in the video, but that may be as close to a "microscope" mode as it gets. Maybe if you put the lights into their original position, you can approximate one. ;)
So he's a research truck and that's pretty cool but that means the chrome disks on his arms are for... um any ideas? Great review btw, is there anywhere that we can see what products are on the way?
@vincent5th NO SOME THINGS ARE BUT OTHERS ARE EITHER OFFICIAL OR VERY HIGH QUALITY, LIKE THEIR G1 REIISUE KO DEVY (THE $60 ONE) HAS DIECAST AND GREAT JOINTS AND PLASTIC. YOU HAVE TO DO A SEARCH AND READ THE DESCRIPTIONS CLOSELY :)
I LOVE THE HEAD MOLD THE DIALS AND THE CHEST PIECE, KEEPIN G1 AND THATS GREAT, GREAT REVIEW, WHEN YOU THINK WE WILL HAVE ON STORES? HOPE ALL IS WELL MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS
Man, these figures are taking a mighty long time to hit the shelves, i got my perceptor on pre order. i think there is a way to turn him into his microscope, in the 1:45 section of pees video with a lil work i think it might be possible to achieve an alternate microscope mode. to think, he is a nice figure, imo cybertronian sound wave is the best figure to come out so far.....
to me it looks like a Perceptor after the wars, like he's an old man whose seen a lotta battles and now spends his days consumed in his research... sorta like a mad scientist
Hey Peaugh, How about releasing some small video's where you show the differences between Hasbro and Takara figures? Offcourse we see some pictures on sites, but a lot are enhanced through photoshop. having you show them side by side and talk about the figures us always better! Fans can decide from there what kind they'd like to buy. (Something similar what you did with Animated Rodiums, but a vid containing a few figs instead of just 1) Keep up the good work! regards R
His Alt mode makes me think of those vehicles seen in that show Storm Chasers the more I look at it., Maybe if he had a few more red variations in that mode it wouldn't look so plain or ordinary like a blown version of that powercore combiner commander whose name escapes me
I don´t know man, it looks like there´s a lab mode or something, like Animated Perceptor´s character model. Notice how the legs transform, how there´s detail in the back of the rear panels, how the chest panel is desing to come dow, right in the middle of the legs. Also, I can´t help thinking that there´s more to that sight, I mean, no other figure can use it neither in car nor robot mode.
you could attempt it i guess... but he is a triple changer in transformers animated so thats where the trukk inspiration came from. o yea in the wiki he has an accent so they replace all the places that make a K sound with a k so its not truck its trukk
It always bothers me when they make transformers that arms/shoulders that don't snap into place and that just 'hover' in place cause it just is weird too me
@SirScrewloose whel thats why i sayd telescope becouse it would fit in the g1 line , its a cool kids toy , and it is a better disguis , he could be used then to spy on desepticon , even look at things on cybetron , also fits in the g1 caracters beter... and like sayd turing every g1 robot that is not a car into a car is just not dooing it... its a lame idea... and if they make it a car make it a good car...not te stuf they role out now... even the new sound wave looks better then this one...
@vincent5th You know that some of the quality of KO toys is the same or even better that G1 Transformers .. so basically you just called G1 toys CRAP !!
wait what made Hasbro want to start using Chrome in there figures? well I hope this is the start of new Figures that will always Have CHROME like the Japanese!!!!!
Awesome. I still have my G1 Perceptor i played with as a kid. One of the few that survived.
Just wanted to say 'thank' Peaugh! I've had Perceptor over a week and I could not get the shoulders to line up for robot mode. I rewatched your review and saw what I was doing wrong.
Thanks again! You might have saved me from having a broke Perceptor- from either from twisting the arm the wrong way or tossing it out the second story window of my apartment I'm not sure :)
I love this toy. The head sculpt it is SO perfect.
such a great homage to G1 perceptor... he even has the slide-up head feature. i'll be really happy if the US version really does have the chrome plastic - we don't see enough of that these days :) BIG thumbs up for this one!
Cannot unsee the Benedict Cumberbatch thing now. This only adds to the awesome.
cool Figure Ben. i'm going to buy him when he hits stores here in the Philippines
just cant wait for this one in particular, all that chrome and that sexy robot mode! hell, i even like the vehicle mode!
@betacrest10 It looks like there IS one on his chest behind the amber plate, but the red-on-red coloring hides it at least partially.
Very nice. When is this line being released in North America
About a third mode, what if you kinda only half way transformed him leaving his arms and head down and having the cannon thingy over the head like in his alt mode but also spread the legs a bit and only have them out like not connecting to his other part, it looks like there is a double hinge on his...stomach area so bending that, making it look like a sorta microscope or stationary launcher?
This really looks G2-esque.... and i love it!
on the opening pannel its supposed to have a rub sighn ,in the uk we got crome
I think it's kind of cool how Hasbro is including some chrome bits in the toys today
I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this yet, but at BotCon the designer said that the "window" on his chest is supposed to flip down and he can put stuff on there and examine it. Didn't see that mentioned in the video, but that may be as close to a "microscope" mode as it gets. Maybe if you put the lights into their original position, you can approximate one. ;)
Nice review man! This a cool version of perceptor. His colors are very g1 style. Planning on getting this fig 4 sure!
Hey Peaugh,can he Perceptor Kick?
It's weird how the united version does not have the chrome but the regular version does? Do you think this was a mistake?
OMG I love sherlock! And Perceptor looks just like him!
Althought microscope mode has nostalgia value I actually like this new vehicle more and I find that it makes more sense.
When do you think he'll be in stores?
Well the old figure could also transform into a tank. People tend to forget that. It was in Kiss Players along with his face plate.
For we have gotten chrome, from those who have never delivered in years. May we forever praise Hasbro for listening to our unsaid wants. AMEN!!!!
I wonder if the day will ever come, where hasbro starts to make rotating tracks instead of ones that are just moulded it with little wheels...
Does WFC Soundwave's head fit on him? I want to make a custom and I need toknow, thanks!
I got the united version myself. I miss the Chrome but i think the united version has such a nicer, deeper red for the main body that i went for that.
How much did you get him?And is he a deluxe size?
So he's a research truck and that's pretty cool but that means the chrome disks on his arms are for... um any ideas? Great review btw, is there anywhere that we can see what products are on the way?
@vincent5th NO SOME THINGS ARE BUT OTHERS ARE EITHER OFFICIAL OR VERY HIGH QUALITY, LIKE THEIR G1 REIISUE KO DEVY (THE $60 ONE) HAS DIECAST AND GREAT JOINTS AND PLASTIC. YOU HAVE TO DO A SEARCH AND READ THE DESCRIPTIONS CLOSELY :)
I think there is a microscope mode. When you're fiddling with the legs, leave them split after you detach the doors.
@pieman3968 KO Toys do sell official toys as well as KO.
@santasgrotto07 im on the gallery but it doesent show the "microscope mode". all it shows is halftrack mode, and the packaging.
Perceptor CAN hold the G1 Perceptors weapons, however. I can' wait to get this figure!!!!
you did post that photo on Twitter for what I thought was a decent microscope mode
Not wild about his alt form, but his bot mode more than makes up for it. Cool review, Peaugh.
anyone know if there are going to be tous from the new series transformers prime? the character designs are awesome
what is the "mr 5 1409" mean on the license plate?
@vultwaz You know it =) But with the WFC figure being a fairly new release, who knows
They've done well with this figure. Very Geewunny.
i seen what could be the makings of a microscope mode when you started transforming him
I LOVE THE HEAD MOLD THE DIALS AND THE CHEST PIECE, KEEPIN G1 AND THATS GREAT, GREAT REVIEW, WHEN YOU THINK WE WILL HAVE ON STORES? HOPE ALL IS WELL MAY GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURS
he will hold his old G1 weapons from the reissue,should give it a try =]
Man, these figures are taking a mighty long time to hit the shelves, i got my perceptor on pre order. i think there is a way to turn him into his microscope, in the 1:45 section of pees video with a lil work i think it might be possible to achieve an alternate microscope mode. to think, he is a nice figure, imo cybertronian sound wave is the best figure to come out so far.....
im loving this guy he shall be mine. i also cant wait til we see pics of reflector
My Perceptor has the rub thing on the inside of his chest, and it doesn't show in vehicle mode.
I just wish we could put his shoulder cannon on the left side like it was in the g1 cartoon.Other than that it is a great figure!!
to me it looks like a Perceptor after the wars, like he's an old man whose seen a lotta battles and now spends his days consumed in his research... sorta like a mad scientist
Hey Peaugh, How about releasing some small video's where you show the differences between Hasbro and Takara figures?
Offcourse we see some pictures on sites, but a lot are enhanced through photoshop. having you show them side by side and talk about the figures us always better! Fans can decide from there what kind they'd like to buy.
(Something similar what you did with Animated Rodiums, but a vid containing a few figs instead of just 1)
Keep up the good work!
regards R
His Alt mode makes me think of those vehicles seen in that show Storm Chasers the more I look at it., Maybe if he had a few more red variations in that mode it wouldn't look so plain or ordinary like a blown version of that powercore combiner commander whose name escapes me
I don´t know man, it looks like there´s a lab mode or something, like Animated Perceptor´s character model. Notice how the legs transform, how there´s detail in the back of the rear panels, how the chest panel is desing to come dow, right in the middle of the legs. Also, I can´t help thinking that there´s more to that sight, I mean, no other figure can use it neither in car nor robot mode.
I found that you can take Recon Ironhide's weapons and give them to Tracks. Can you give Perceptor Ironhide's sniper rifle?
... i reckon Perceptor would make a good Sherlock.. he'd need a remould with a deerstalker hat though..
6:45 - You wouldn't hold a sniper rifle with one hand anyway, so I think for the most part, the answer is "yes" - but just not "one handed".
The first wave started coming out in the US yesterday actually, So be on the look out! =D
Ha pretty awesome. The opening chest makes me think Hasbro may repaint him into a certain major Con
can he do the preceptor kick?
you could attempt it i guess... but he is a triple changer in transformers animated so thats where the trukk inspiration came from. o yea in the wiki he has an accent so they replace all the places that make a K sound with a k so its not truck its trukk
Reminds me of universe onslaught. the transformation, that is
That is one sexy scientist.
It is just uncanny how closely this resembles the robot mode G1 Perceptor. I like Jazz a little better though.
@StinG268 Smolder?
on the opening pannel its supposed to have a rub sighn
Wow I was gonna buy him as I like Perceptor. But now Im really sold.
@pieman3968 i think it's a sponsor, maybe.
hasbro doing chrome???
my pray has been answered~YYIPPIIEE~!!!
chrome on hasbro? i'm quite suprised
@IXRollOutIX heu you rock and tell peaugh to check out toyur lego transformers btw love those lego transformers
A MUST.
I cant help but observe that this alt mode is inspired from the g1 figures tank mode that was a boring mode anyways
Oh, and how's his posability?
lol I can definitely see the Benedict Cumberbatch.
is there a way that his shoulder cannon can be formed into the microscope; if not, a missed opportunity.
I cannot get this guy back into vehicle mode :(
the vehicle is called a half-track :P
style's are so different
I think they could have managed actual treads on this guy.
Is that Chrome I see?
Oh shit he does look like Benedict Cumberbatch!
wth? are we really getting chrome paint on an american release? or is this the takara version....?
Thank you, though I do not have a small but interesting
Needs Preceptor Nao.
It always bothers me when they make transformers that arms/shoulders that don't snap into place and that just 'hover' in place cause it just is weird too me
@SirScrewloose whel thats why i sayd telescope becouse it would fit in the g1 line , its a cool kids toy , and it is a better disguis , he could be used then to spy on desepticon , even look at things on cybetron , also fits in the g1 caracters beter... and like sayd turing every g1 robot that is not a car into a car is just not dooing it... its a lame idea... and if they make it a car make it a good car...not te stuf they role out now... even the new sound wave looks better then this one...
i got a micro scope mode
@vincent5th You know that some of the quality of KO toys is the same or even better that G1 Transformers .. so basically you just called G1 toys CRAP !!
Esta es una figura de Hasbro con CROMO!!!!!!!! ?
Is this a hasbro´s figure with CHROME!!!! ?
Observatory vehicle I guess
It has a microscope mode go on seibertrons gallery of him
He can hold Blurrs gun emgo316 showed that in his review. I realy want him he is awesome
@johnnayboy1 No, Universe 2.0
@dblackflame1000 No rub sign.
He should have stayed as a microscope
percepter G1 ironhide and warpatg
@roni134730 y tha heck wuld u think that??
wait what made Hasbro want to start using Chrome in there figures? well I hope this is the start of new Figures that will always Have CHROME like the Japanese!!!!!
Way too much of the mass ends up on the legs. I'll stick with the reissue.
Perceptor have grimlock's chest
@roni134730 who told u that its 100% real its just an early release
it looks 3d by the shadow ahaha
something wrong with you're camera?
@Rquiem
One's crap, the other is great, respectively.
For the most part, at least.